Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes the light needs a bit of help to get through the dark clouds around us—and that's up to you.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen

Fred swiped two fingers across his faceplate in a Spartan smile

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

It's got nothing to do with god, but the power of my own mind. I have to save me, no one else can do it for me.

I nazisti non sono mai riusciti ad inculcarmi l'idea che essere ebreo è un peccato.

A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats) Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats) Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats) "Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats) So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

It may hurt today, but it will get better. Time passes, and people forget. It won't be long before you'll be able to look back on everything that happened today and laugh.

Sometimes you can't be who you want

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.

Sometimes I wonder if they live in a state of apathy or ignorance, or if they are passive, but when I consider what continues to exist inside Tibet, even after such violent upheaval, it is resistance that comes to mind, not inaction. I have come to equate concrete action as resistance. It is harder to define their quiet refusal to change, and their resilience because I have not been taught to acknowledge what comes without manifestations in word or action.

I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.

How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?

Quietly, unobtrusively and extremely fitfully, something in my mind began to assert itself, to question things and refuse to be brainwashed, bringing me to this time when I can set down this story. It was a long and painful process for me, that process of expansion.

Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. The one does not acknowledge the other's existence. The women from war are like that [...]

In the city Maiguru's brother immediately made an appointment with a psychiatrist. We felt better—help was at hand. But the psychiatrist said that Nyasha could not be ill, that Africans did not suffer in the way we had described. She was making a scene. We should take her home and be firm with her.

I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain.

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

the dragon is not slain or even fought against, but drawn out and fearlessly nurtured

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ... After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ... I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.